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WP Engine Integrates Git Version Control with WordPress

If you’ve not heard of WP Engine you’ve probably been living under a stone (or not attended a WordCamp in America, which the WP Engine guys invariably attend). The WordPress hosting company has launched a new feature which is going to be of particular interest to developers, especially those who prefer Git to Subversion.

Git-push-to-deploy by WP Engine lets developers deploy applications using Git, and now that it’s incorporated with WP Engine it means anyone who’s hosted there can a) push to WordPress, and b) use version control with WordPress. With Git Push-to-Deply it looks like WP Engine is looking to tap into the developer market by offering the tools that developers love, and that make their lives easier.

Michael Kimb Jones Launches WOWPlugins.com

WOW Plugins is a staple of WordCamp UK. Each year Michael Kimb Jones gives a rundown of plugins that he’s using that he finds useful and wants to share. It’s always a really popular presentation, partly because of the content and partly because Kimb is so good at presenting it. Kimb has just announced that he’s launching WOW Plugins, which will be an archive of all of the plugins he has covered each year (and will in the future I assume). I covered Kimb’s WOW Plugins talk on WPMU.org, but now you can follow them all on wowplugins.com. ∞

This Week in The Realm: Week #25

Events

WordCamp Curitiba 2012 — 2 days of intensive discussions, presentations and networking, among Brazilian WordPress enthusiasts. The event happened last week-end and the organizers have already submitted an event report, which we will expand and publish next week, right here on WP Realm.

WordPress meetup in Normandy — the french WordPress community is currently discussing a possible meetup in either Rouen or Caen, so if you are in the area, make sure to attend.

Is your community planning meetups or other events? Let us know!

Plugins

bbPress 2.1 Beta 1 — The forums plugin has reached Beta 1, and includes many enhancements and fixes (here’s the list of closed tickets for this release). The development team is aiming to release bbPress 2.1 by the end of June, based on how the beta period goes. The more help they get with testing and fixing bugs, the sooner the final version ships. If you want to help with the translation, it’s right here.
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WP Realm: What We’ll Cover and How You Can Get Involved

When Remkus asked me if I wanted to be involved with WP Realm, I was pretty excited. Not only is there a great team behind it (who I love working so closely with) but it gives me an opportunity to showcase and promote people using WordPress all over the world. At Words for WP, my clients are everywhere, I speak to people using WordPress in loads of different countries and there is a feeling that the real focus of the WordPress community is in the US. We want to broaden that out to cover the wide spectrum of WordPress users. [Read more…] about WP Realm: What We’ll Cover and How You Can Get Involved

How WP Realm Began

For the last two years, I have been thinking about setting up a (more) international WordPress blog, but the thought of doing it alone prevented me from getting started. As an internationally orientated European guy, I was missing something on the various blogs covering news about WordPress.

It wasn’t until the very first WP on Tour in January of this year that the idea was rekindled, but nothing was set in stone. Yet. A couple of months later a bunch of us who had attended WP on Tour crashed WordCamp NL and the idea got picked up again – made even more concrete. After a little debate via our Skype group chat we came up with the name WP Realm and I thus I registered the domain. [Read more…] about How WP Realm Began